Part 1:
D#m
Stood still on a highway
A#
I saw a woman
D#m
By the side of the road
With a face that I knew like my own
A#
Reflected in my window
D#m
Well she walked up to my quarterlight
G#
And she bent down real slow
D#m A#
D# fearful pressure paralysed me
D#m
In my shadow
A# D#m
She said "Son, what are you doing here?
A#
My fear for you has turned me in my grave"
D#m
I said "Mama, I come to the valley of the rich
G#
Myself to sell"
D#m A# D#m
She said "Son, this is the road to Hell"
D#m
On your journey 'cross the wilderness
G#
From the desert to the well
D#m A# D#m
You have strayed upon the motorway to Hell
Part 2
D#m
Well I'm standing by the river,
G#
But the water doesn't flow.
B A#
It boils with every poison -
D#m
You can think of.
D#m
And I'm underneath the street light,
G#m
The delighted of joy I know,
B A#
Scared beyond belief,
D#m
Way down in the shadows.
F#
And the perverted fear of violence,
C#
Chokes a smile on every face,
B A#
D# common sense is ringing, out the bells.
D#m G#m
This ain't no technological breakdown,
B A# D#m
Oh-no, this is the road to hell.
F#
And as the roads jam up with credit,
C#
And there's nothing you can do,
B
It's all just bits of paper,
A#
Flying a way from you.
D#m
Oh look out world take a good look,
G#
Look who's down there,
B (E) D#m
You must learn this lesson fast, and learn it well.
D#m G#
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway,
B A#
Oh-no, this is the road,
A#
This is the road,
A# D#m
This is the road ... to hell.